[gardeners] Books
Liz Albrook (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Fri, 3 Jul 1998 10:32:09 +0000
Margaret Lauterbach <gardeners@globalgarden.com> wrote:
> No, but I bought one. It's on the nightstand (Dead Man's Walk). I'm
> reading the third of Ivan Doig's trilogy about Montana. Maybe now that I'm
> through taking courses at the university osmosis is working. I tried it
> once in undergrad school, but it didn't work at all. Now I content myself
> with nightmares that I'm walking into a final exam, haven't cracked the
> textbook or attended any lectures. Sigh. Margaret
Margaret, how did you make it through to the third book? I find
Doig's books to be much line Montana itself -- dry and tedious to get
through. Ray is currently reading one of his books that's set over
on the Washington coast and he is enjoying it a great deal -- some
of it is hilarious. (Ray also made it through the trilogy.) I
finished Dead Man's Walk about 3 weeks ago -- I enjoyed it more than
The Street's of Laredo but didn't think it came close to the beauty
of Lonesome Dove. That book is one of my favorites of all time --
mostly because I read it at about the same time I underwent the
conversion from measuring life by what I accomplished to measuring
life by how I lived it I suppose.
Liz